6-letter words that end in n
- baryon — any of a class of elementary particles that have a mass greater than or equal to that of the proton, participate in strong interactions, and have a spin of 1⁄2. Baryons are either nucleons or hyperons. The baryon number is the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
- barzun — Jacques (Martin) 1907–2012, U.S. historian, educator, and writer, born in France.
- bashan — a region to the east of the Jordan, renowned for its rich pasture (Deuteronomy 32:14)
- basion — the midpoint on the forward border of the foramen magnum
- baskin — Leonard, 1922–2000, U.S. sculptor and artist.
- baston — (heraldry) Obsolete form of baton.
- bataan — a peninsula in the Philippines, in W Luzon: scene of the surrender of US and Philippine forces to the Japanese during World War II, later retaken by American forces
- batman — In the British armed forces, an officer's batman is his personal servant.
- batmen — a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.
- batten — A batten is a long strip of wood that is fixed to something to strengthen it or to hold it firm.
- batton — Alternative form of batten.
- bauson — a badger (applied contemptuously to people).
- bayern — Bavaria
- bayman — a person who lives by a bay, esp one who is skilled in navigating it
- baymen — Plural form of bayman.
- bayyan — an official declaration
- bb gun — A BB gun is a type of airgun that fires small round bullets that are called BBs.
- beacon — A beacon is a light or a fire, usually on a hill or tower, which acts as a signal or a warning.
- beamon — Robert ("Bob") born 1946, U.S. track-and-field athlete.
- beaten — Beaten earth has been pressed down, often by people's feet, until it is hard.
- beaton — Sir Cecil (Walter Hardy). 1904–80, British photographer, noted esp for his society portraits
- beckon — If you beckon to someone, you signal to them to come to you.
- bed in — to fit (parts) together accurately or (of parts) to be fitted together, either through machining or use, as in fitting a bearing to its shaft
- bedamn — to damn, to curse thoroughly
- bedpan — A bedpan is a shallow bowl shaped like a toilet seat, which is used instead of a toilet by people who are too ill to get out of bed.
- beduin — an Arab of the desert, in Asia or Africa; nomadic Arab.
- bedzin — an industrial and mining town in S Poland.
- beeton — Isabella Mary, known as Mrs Beeton. 1836–65, British cookery writer, author of The Book of Household Management (1861)
- beguin — a Beghard.
- behmen — Jakob [jey-kuh b] /ˈdʒeɪ kəb/ (Show IPA), Böhme, Jakob.
- belsen — a village in NE Germany: with Bergen, the site of a Nazi concentration camp (1943–45)
- belton — a town in W Missouri.
- bemean — to make mean; demean; debase (usually used reflexively).
- bemoan — If you bemoan something, you express sorrow or dissatisfaction about it.
- benign — You use benign to describe someone who is kind, gentle, and harmless.
- benson — E(dward) F(rederic). 1867–1940, British writer, noted esp for a series of comic novels featuring the characters Mapp and Lucia
- benton — Thomas Hart. 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s
- benzin — a colorless, volatile, flammable, liquid mixture of various hydrocarbons, obtained in the distillation of petroleum, and used in cleaning, dyeing, etc.
- berean — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- bergen — a large rucksack with a capacity of over 50 litres
- berlin — the capital of Germany (1871–1945 and from 1990), formerly divided (1945–90) into the eastern sector, capital of East Germany, and the western sectors, which formed an exclave in East German territory closely affiliated with West Germany: a wall dividing the sectors was built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989 and the city was formally reunited in 1990: formerly (1618–1871) the capital of Brandenburg and Prussia. Pop: 3 388 477 (2003 est)
- berwyn — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- beslan — a town in the North Ossetian Republic in Russia: scene of a massacre in 2004 when Chechen extremists held a school hostage, leading to a siege in which 344 people were killed. Pop: 35 550 (2002)
- besoin — need
- bhajan — the singing of devotional songs and hymns
- bhavan — (in India) a large house or building
- bhutan — a kingdom in central Asia: disputed by Tibet, China, India, and Britain since the 18th century but most closely connected with India; contains inaccessible stretches of the E Himalayas in the north. Official language: Dzongka; Nepali is also spoken. Official religion: Mahayana Buddhist. Currencies: ngultrum and Indian rupee. Capital: Thimbu. Pop: 725 296 (2013 est). Area: about 46 600 sq km (18 000 sq miles)
- bicorn — having two horns or hornlike parts
- bicron — a billionth part of a metre
- bid in — (in an auction) to outbid all previous offers for (one's own property) to retain ownership or increase the final selling price